Books I have enjoyed, Beyond the Deepwoods

This book was the first book in the Edge Chronicles. It tells the story of a human who lived in a large forest with wood trolls. The name of the forest is Deepwoods, hence the name of the book. It starts out with how Twig is excluded by the other trolls because he was small, skinny, and didn't fit in. Then his "parents" send him off to his "aunt and uncle" (everything is quoted because they aren't really his relatives). In order to not get lost in the Deepwoods, everyone follows a well beat path. While twig was walking down the path, he got to absorbed in the beauty and got lost. Then he helped a bunch of sky pirates (the name for people who deliver supplies in large ships built around big buoyant rocks. They also were like pirates and raided) find their flight rock. They took him in and then he fell off the ship and couldn't be found. After wandering around he fell into a colony of honey goblins. After a large conflict about stealing honey. The goblins accuse Twig of killing their mother who made the honey. Twig manages to escape by tunnels to the surface. He then gets captured by a little trog who keeps him  as a pet. Then one day in a coming of age ceremony, she has to drink from a big jug of special tree sap. After doing this she becomes bald, fat, and savage like all the other female trogs. She no longer recognized Twig as a pet and yet again he has to escape. As he blundered through the Mire (a big wasteland) he comes across a big caterbird cocoon. When it hatches, since Twig was there, it said it was now its sworn duty to protect him in times of danger. Then it flies away. He crosses the Mire and goes through the city that juts out on The Edge (the entire world is this huge rock that starts up high on the spring of life and goes out. If you fall off the edge you just fall and fall until you die of starvation or get eaten by these giant moths that fly around the edge. He then gets pulled off the edge by an evil shape changer called The Gloamglozer that had led him all the way to the edge. Then the Caterbird comes and saves him and takes him to his father's sky pirate ship the one that he was taken aboard in the beginning.

Anyway. I liked this book because it was very fantastical. Not only that, but it went into very precise details but it didn't overdo it. I would recommend this book.